Zakhariy K. Lyubimov

Zakhariy Kirillovich Lyubimov (10 September 1895-25 August 1938) was a Lieutenant-General of the Red Army of the Soviet Union. Lyubimov was one of the 45% of Soviet generals who died in Joseph Stalin's Great Purge.

Biography
Zakhariy Kirillovich Lyubimov was born on 10 September 1895 in Roslavl, Russian Empire (now Smolensk Oblast, Russia). Lyubimov was born to a family of peasants, and he was conscripted into the Imperial Russian Army in 1914 at the start of World War I. Lyubimov was wounded during the war with the German Empire, and he rose to the rank of Sergeant by the time of the 1917 Russian Revolution. Lyubimov joined the Bolsheviks under Vladimir Lenin and became the commander of a cavalry regiment, fighting the opposing White Army during the Russian Civil War. In 1933, he graduated from the Frunze Military Academy, and he rose to the rank of Lieutenant-General as the commander of an army in Central Asia. Lyubimov was one of the men whom Joseph Stalin believed was a threat to Stalinism, and he had Lyubimov expelled from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1938. Lyubimov was accused of siding with the Socialist Revolutionary Party against the CPSU, and he was excuted by firing squad in 1938 during the Great Purge.